History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E36TheSweaters

* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: [[InvokedTrope Principal Brown]] suggests that if you're grabbed by someone in a fight, you should grab the other guy's shoe and throw it across the room, so that they will release you to retrieve it.

* StealthHiBye: Carlton and Troy appear to disappear when Gumball had his eyes closed, [[SubvertedTrope but]] Darwin saw [[NoPeripheralVision they just climbed up a tree]].
* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' or anything made by Filmation). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit. "The Extras" reveals that they actually were cardboard cutouts the whole time.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: The coach of the rival team incessantly taunts Gumball and Darwin.
* TrivialTitle: The episode's antagonists all wear sweaters, but those sweaters just make them look even weirder than they would otherwise; they aren't important to the plot in any way.
* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: Darwin and Gumball do not contest Carlton, Troy, or Mr. Kreese's claims to being "more hardcore", yet are always treated as if they do.

'''Darwin:''' What do you think we're doing with our legs right now?

* FacelessMasses: The crowd at Richwood High are faceless mobs of color in long shots and though they have faces in closer shots. They never move and are revealed by a stray tennis ball to actually be flat cutouts (season three's "The Extras" reveals that they can break out of being flat cutouts, but don't want to as anyone who does gets attacked for standout out in the crowd):

* FacelessMasses: The crowd at Richwood High are faceless mobs of color in long shots and though they have faces in closer shots, they never move and are revealed by a stray tennis ball to actually be flat cutouts.

Kids from a rival school demand a tennis match against Gumball and Darwin, who refuse, as they already know what's going to happen -- though that doesn't stop everyone else from pushing them to compete.

Kids (who look like refugees from a brightly-colored, [[LimitedAnimation stiffly-animated]] 1980s action cartoon[[note]]think something from Filmation or the Sunbow-animated episodes of ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero''[[/note]]) from a rival school demand a tennis match against Gumball and Darwin, who refuse, as they already know what's going to happen -- though that doesn't stop everyone else from pushing them to compete.

* ArtShift: In contrast to the show's usual live action backdrops, the tennis match in the second half (which takes place in a different school) is fully animated in the same style as the human characters (in that flat, brightly-colored, stiff 1970s-1980s style) -- right down to the ''sky''.

Kids (who look like refugees from a stiffly-animated 1980s cartoon[[note]]think something from Filmation or ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero''[[/note]]) from a rival school demand a tennis match against Gumball and Darwin, who refuse, as they already know what's going to happen -- though that doesn't stop everyone else from pushing them to compete.

Kids from a rival school demand a tennis match against Gumball and Darwin, who refuse, as they already know what's going to happen -- though that doesn't stop everyone else from pushing them to compete.

* CouldSayItBut: Mr. Small and Principal Brown both approve of the fight this way--[[AdultsAreUseless even though]] Gumball and Darwin came to them so they would ''stop'' it.
* DescriptionCut: When Penny is "trying" to talk Gumball out of the fight (but actually convincing him to do it because she mentions finding it attractive):

* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Parodied when Mr. Kreese [[WrongGenreSavvy thinks Gumball and Darwin are planning something]], so he [[OrderedToCheat tells Carlton to injure Gumball]] even though they're one serve away from winning while the other team has not scored a single point and is not trying to win or even play at all. Technically subverted in that they win anyway.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: The tennis match is played up by the camera and music as some epic confrontation; Carlton and Troy even [[CallingYourAttacks enthusiastically shout the name of their shots]]. This despite Gumball and Darwin caring so little that they are doing ''literally nothing'' to stop the other team from scoring.

* OnlySaneMan: For this episode, Gumball and Darwin act as this in contrast to everyone else.
* ParodyEpisode: Of 80s sports movies, especially ''Film/TheKarateKid''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Darwin and Gumball originally planned to leave when everyone expects them to fight, but Gumball decides to do it to impress Penny.
* StealthHiBye: Subverted when Carlton and Troy appear to disappear when Gumball had his eyes closed, but Darwin saw [[NoPeripheralVision they just climbed up a tree]].

* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' or anything made by Filmation). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit.

* OnlySaneMan: For this episode, Gumball and Darwin act as this in contrast to everyone else.

* ManChild: The coach of the rival team, who incessantly taunts Gumball and Darwin.

* MistakenConfession: The episode begins with Darwin and Gumball being called to the principal's office for unknown reasons. Darwin suggests fessing up immediately, which Gumball does while adding as ''massive'' dose of PlayingTheVictimCard, but they weren't even in trouble in the first place.

* TrivialTitle: Sweaters are just an article of clothing the episode's antagonist happen to wear, they aren't important to the plot in any way.

* ArtShift: In contrast to the show's usual live action backdrops, the tennis match in the second half (which takes place in a different school) is fully animated in the same style as the human characters -- right down to the ''sky''.

* StealthHiBye: Subverted when Carlton and Troy appear to disappear when Gumball had his eyes closed, but Darwin saw [[NoPeripheralVision they just climbed up a tree.]]

* LiteralAssKicking[=/=]ShotInTheAss: Carlton hits Gumball with a tennis ball, while crying a SingleTear because he doesn't want to. Gumball, ignoring the match to mess around with Darwin, was facing the other way and gets hit in the rear end ("[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Aaaaah!]] Right in the glute."), [[GameBreakingInjury taking him out of the match.]] Mr. Small claims he can heal Gumball, but when he spits on his hands and reaches for Gumball's buttocks, Gumball decides to just walk it off.

Kids from a rival school demand a standoff with Gumball and Darwin. They repeatedly refuse, but no one seems to care what they have to say about it.

-->'''Darwin:''' Has been there some kind of chemical leak today? 'Cause right now everyone's acting like total psychos.

* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' or anything made by Filmation). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit.

* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero''). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit.

* BizarroEpisode: The episode focuses on the sudden appearance of bizarre people who look, act, and are animated completely different than everyone else in Elmore starting a bizarre sports movie plot that ''everyone'' but Darwin and Gumball are inexplicably compelled to go along with.
-->'''Darwin:''' Has been there some kind of chemical leak today? 'Cause right now everyone's acting like total psychos.

* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from 70s or 80s era cartoons created by Filmation or HannaBarbera during its DorkAge. To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit.

* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from 70s or 80s era cartoons. To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit.